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Health care systems should strive to reduce postoperative complications and mortality by improving postoperative care after elective surgery, though more research is needed on ICU admission benefits.
Prioritizes postoperative care optimization to cut elective surgery risks; leaves open routine ICU admission benefits for targeted study.
Postoperative complications increase mortality and reduce quality of life after surgery (1). Recently, numbers of elderly patients with severe comorbidity who are in need of a surgical service have increased, as well as the numbers of patients who are at risk of postoperative complications (2). Thus, health care systems should strive to reduce postoperative complications and mortality by improving postoperative care after elective surgery (1,3).
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Park et al. (2018) conducted an editorial in Postoperative complications. Postoperative ICU admissions was evaluated. Health care systems should strive to reduce postoperative complications and mortality by improving postoperative care after elective surgery, though more research is needed on ICU admission benefits.
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